Historical Directories

Historical Directories project does not attempt to publish every directory available between 1750 and 1919. Under our funding scheme, the project focuses upon England and Wales only.

If you are unable to find a city or town within a given county, it is worth remembering that we classify locations according to their historical position whenever possible.

Some original directories contain large, fragile and folded maps. We have omitted most of these during the digitisation process, as they are unsuitable for scanning.

Archive Quest - Document Imaging and content management for the Digital Library

Life & Times of Chaucer on CD-ROM.Primary Source Media
Multimedia CD-ROM.
British Library Maps Catalogue on CD-ROM. Primary Source Media
UK MARC conversion into a fielded, indexed search environment on CD-ROM.
Illustrated Incunabula Short Title Catalogue on CD-ROM. Primary Source Media
Scanning, cataloguing, into a fielded indexed search environment on CD-ROM.
Times Literary Supplement Centenary Archive Online. Primary Source Media
http://www.tls.psmedia.com
British Official Publications Collaborative Reader Information Service. Southampton Uni.
http://www.bopcris.ac.uk
Times Digital Archive Online. Thomson Gale
http://www.galegroup.com/Times
Enhanced British Parliamentary Papers on Ireland. Southampton University
http://www.eppi.ac.uk
Early Irish Language Dictionary. Ulster University
Scanned from bound volumes to create XML text.
Historical Directories Online. Leicester University & New Opportunity Fund
http://www.historicaldirectories.org
History to Her Story Online. West Yorkshire Archive Services
http://www.historytoherstory.org.uk
Moving Here - 200 years of migration to England. West Yorkshire Archive Services
http://www.movinghere.org.uk

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